The company which runs one of Indonesia's biggest feedlots, is helping local farmers turn manure into biogas for cooking.

Lisa Wood from Agro Giri Perkasa (AGP), says rural areas of Indonesia have "unreliable" access to LPG and often use wood for cooking meals.

She says converting manure into biogas, will have environmental and cost benefits for farmers.

"It is a truly infinite resource and the biogas reactor is a very simple concept," she says.

"If you build a large enough reactor and have enough manure going into it, you can even create electricity."

Ms Wood says the decision to donate some biogas reactors to the community, is part of AGP's Corporate Social Responsibility Project, and she hopes the technology can be embraced by others in rural Indonesia.

"This concept can be widespread across rural Indonesia as long as there's cows, as long as there's livestock because you can use pigs, sheep or chickens... and human waste as well."

It's hoped the big feedlots of Indonesia could one day create biogas for the regions.

"We haven't developed the technology yet where we can compress the methane gas and sell it," says Lisa Wood.

"But there is the opportunity that feedlots could be self-sustaining for their own power,

"So a 50 metre cubed reactor could potentially supply all of the electricity needs of the feedlot."

Ms Wood says it only takes two or three cows to produce about 50 kilograms of manure each day, which is enough to produce biogas for eight hours of cooking a day.

The biogas program in Indonesia is also being supported by exporting company Austrex.